Sentence examples for ostensibly about from inspiring English sources

This being the case, as many RR regulars noted, most songs ostensibly "about" animals aren't really about animals at all.

The Baltimore campaign was ostensibly about money.

But the book is only ostensibly about the past.

The work is ostensibly about light and atmosphere, not gods or heroes or particular people.

Readers, we tell ourselves, have the right to know what a movie is ostensibly about.

Ostensibly about African art, the film doubled as a critique of French colonialism.

But "Moby-Dick," Melville's 1851 novel ostensibly about the American whaling industry, was a failure.

However good the conditions may be for football, the Qatar trips are still ostensibly about money.

Not One Less is ostensibly about China's problem with the drop-out rate in country schools.

"Stay" is ostensibly about Harry, a wild, shaggy mutt she hates and loves.

David Bellos's Is That a Fish in Your Ear? (Particular Books) is ostensibly about language translation.